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List of food additives generally provided for eating or drinking as foods and which are used as food additives
Last update：2006/12/05

List of substances which are generally provided for eating or drinking as foods and which are used as food additives

These substances in this list are given in the Director-general of Environmental Health Bureau Notice, No. 56 (published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on May 23, 1996).

These additives are listed here in alphabetic order.

Agar		Gelatin
Amacha extract (Hydrangea leaves extract)		Gluten
American red raspberry colour (Boysenberry colour)		Gluten decomposites
Azuki colour		Gooseberry colour
Beefsteak plant colour (Perilla colour)		Grape juice colour
Black berry colour		Hibiscus colour
Black currant		Hop extract
Black huckleberry colour		Kelp extract
Blueberry colour		Konjac extract
Casein		Lactic acid bacteria concentrates
Cherry colour		Laver colour
Chicory colour		Loganberry colour
Chlorella extract		Malt extract
Cocoa		Mannan
Collagen		Morello cherry colour
Corn cellulose		Mugwort extract
Cowberry colour		Mulberry colour
Cranberry colour		Okra extract
Daidai extract		Olive tea
Dark sweet cherry colour		Paprika
Egg white		Plum colour
Elderberry colour		Powdered chlorella
Ethanol		Powdered licorice
European dewberry colour		Raspberry colour
Fermentation-derived cellulose		Red cabbage colour
Fruit juice		Red currant colour
	Berry juice	Red radish colour
	Black currant juice	Red rice colour
	Blackberry juice	Rennet casein
	Blueberry juice	Saffron
	Boysenberry juice	Saffron colour
	Cherry juice	Salmonberry colour
	Cowberry juice	Seaweed cellulose
	Cranberry juice	Sepia colour
	Dark sweet cherry juice	Soybean polysaccharides
	Dewberry juice	Strawberry colour
	Elderberry juice	Sweetpotato cellulose
	Gooseberry juice	Tea
	Grape juice	Thimbleberry colour
	Huckleberry juice	Turmeric
	Lemon juice	Uguisukagura colour
	Loganberry juice	Vegitable juice
	Morello cherry juice		Beefsteak plant juice
	Mulberry juice		Beet red juice
	Orange juice		Carrot juice
	Pineapple juice		Onion juice
	Plum juice		Red cabbage juice
	Raspberry juice		Tomato juice
	Red currant juice	Wheat extract
	Salmonberry juice	Wheat flour
	Strawberry juice	Whey salt (Whey mineral)
	Thimbleberry juice	Whortleberry colour
	Uguisukagura juice	-
	Whortleberry juice	-